12 years ago
Two trucks are stolen from a car dealer's detail shop. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, one of the trucks has been recovered after thieves drove off with two Ford trucks from the Long McArthur Ford detail building at 2820 Foxborough, sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning. Police say the investigation is ongoing after a 2012, F150, ...

12 years ago
A Missouri couple is turning to the Tri Rivers Fair's talent contest in search of someone who might have what it takes to help save their four sons' lives. Tim and Maggie Murry are looking for bone marrow matches to help their sons fight a rare form of blood cancer called Diamond-Blackfan anemia. On ...

12 years ago
Three storage units are broken into on Copper Court. Police report that sometime between Sunday at 4pm and Monday at 8am, someone removed the locks on three storage units at Access Storage, 1640 Copper Court. Thieves did not remove any possessions from two of the units, but stole numerous items from a third. Police say a collection of ...

12 years ago
A day after the county rejected an offer of a joint city-county health department Salina City Commissioners call a special meeting. Saline County Commissioners reaffirmed late Tuesday afternoon that they do not want to enter into a new interlocal agreement with the City of Salina in regard to the operation of the Salina-Saline County Health Department. About ...

12 years ago
Cleanup continues at the El Dorado Reservoir where winds earlier this week caused a fuel spill and damaged several boats and docks at the Shady Creek Marina. El Dorado State Park manager Seth Turner said Tuesday that the fuel spill is contained and crews were pumping water from a houseboat that was largely under water ...

12 years ago
Kansas is leaving some of its poorest citizens uninsured. Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger says the Affordable Care Act will make it possible—for the first time—for all Americans to have access to health care. But in reality, thousands of Kansans will be left out. That’s because the tax credits designed to help low-income families don’t apply to ...

12 years ago
Police say two alert employees caught and held a man who allegedly was trying to burglarize a Cargill plant in Topeka. Topeka police Sgt. Steve Roth says the employees saw the man break into a fenced-in area that holds heavy equipment on Tuesday night. When the employees ran into the area, the man was "messing with" ...

12 years ago
A new government report shows Kansas is among the largest and fastest growing wind energy markets in the country. The Energy Department reported Tuesday that Kansas ranks third among all U.S. states in the percentage of in-state electricity generation from wind power. The state installed 1,441 megawatts of new wind power capacity in 2012, bringing its ...

12 years ago
A family pet has disappeared from outside a home in northeast Kansas, but chances are it didn't get very far unless someone gave it a lift. WIBW-TV reports (http://bit.ly/157gtRE ) the animal is a 50-pound tortoise that Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf describes as about the size of a truck tire. Wolf's office received a call Monday ...

12 years ago
Parents and children gathered on the street to watch the floats, firetrucks, dancers and horses go by. Yellow caution tape marked off Santa Fe in downtown Salina for the Tri-Rivers Fair parade Tuesday night. "We come out every year to the parade," Jessica Urbanek said, surrounded by her children. "The kids love the horses and the candy." The ...

12 years ago
More wet weather is on the way for drenched Kansas counties where swollen rivers are raising new flooding fears. Heavy rains that began last week have already caused flash flooding over roads and swamped some homes in central Kansas. But emergency managers are now more concerned about the storms expected to begin Wednesday and stretch into ...